🔥 Gündem Discovery of Lost Pan Am Plane Off Puerto Rico Coast After 74 Years

The wreckage of a Pan American World Airways (Pan Am) plane, known as the Clipper Endeavor, which crashed off the coast of Puerto Rico in 1952, has been discovered 74 years later ⁴⁵⁷. The discovery was announced on July 21, 2026 ¹³⁶.

Details of the 1952 Crash

The Pan Am Clipper Endeavor crashed on April 11, 1952, in the waters north of Puerto Rico ³⁶. Of the 69 people on board, 52 tragically lost their lives in the incident ¹⁵¹⁰. The plane sank to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean ¹.

Discovery of the Wreckage

Search teams located the wreckage resting at a depth of nearly 2,000 feet (approximately 610 meters) off the northern coast of Puerto Rico ²⁴⁹. The expedition that found the plane was working in conjunction with the Discovery Channel ⁵. This discovery brings closure to a long-standing aviation mystery that had remained unsolved for over seven decades ⁵¹⁰.